Animal Crossing

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Animal Crossing is a series of simulation video games developed and published by Nintendo, depicting the life of a human character in a town of animal inhabitants. It was introduced as Animal Forest (どうぶつの森,Dōbutsu no Mori?), a game released only in Japan for the Nintendo 64, before being ported to the Nintendo GameCube worldwide. Games in the series contain numerous furniture and clothing items to purchase or acquire, some of which reference other Nintendo games, including the Metroid series.

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They say the suit makes the bounty hunter. Try on this Samus suit and find out!

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—Mabel's Comment

e-Reader card.

Animal Crossing-e Series 2, a collection of e-Reader cards features a card named Samus's Suit. If a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable is used to connect the e-Reader to the game, a pattern can be uploaded to Animal Crossing that gives the player a Power Suit pattern on their shirt and helmet on their hat. The pattern can also be put on umbrellas, floor tiles, and wallpaper.

If the player speaks to Gulliver after repairing his ship, there is a chance he will say "There are plenty of bounty hunters in space. Do you know of one who can turn into a small metal ball? Or the fox like creature who pilots a space craft?" This is a reference to both Samus, who uses the Morph Ball in her series, and Fox McCloud from Star Fox.

The Metroid item can still be obtained from Gulliver. Copying the player's data from Wild World to City Folk does not retain the Metroid from the former in the latter's catalogue. It now appears to be based on the Metroid's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an Assist Trophy.

City Folk also contains two additional items, a helmet named Samus Mask and a T-shirt named Varia Suit. Both are obtained through the Tom Nook Point Tracking System. Similar to the Metroid, both the Samus Mask hat and the Varia Suit shirt resemble their Brawl appearances. The mask can be purchased for 6000 points and the Varia Suit for 5000. The design of the main body of the shirt is partly based on Samus's Suit from Animal Crossing, though it has different sleeves and back as it is a shirt and not a pattern anymore. If both clothing items are worn in conjunction, Kicks the shoe-shining skunk will change the Villager's shoes to yellow if they choose "Go by color" when Kicks asks how the player wants their shoes shined.

The Metroid item and Samus outfit return as special prizes, retaining their appearances from City Folk. The Varia Suit is split into smaller pieces of clothing, since New Leaf had added the ability to change pants and shoes. The outfit is assembled by purchasing Fortune Cookies at Nookling Stores. Each article of the suit is categorized into the "rock 'n' roll" style of clothing. The fortunes are as follows:

Samus Mask (#10: "She who foregoes a hat and grabs a helmet knows not the sting of lava.")

Aside from these, three Metroid-related clothing and painting designs were issued via Official Nintendo Magazine as part of Thank KK It's Friday. The first was a T-shirt colored black and featuring Samus's Helmet on the front (referring to the opening prologue for Super Metroid); The second, titled "metroid" and created by Darren Kerwin, was a painting featuring a black background and an 8-bit Metroid; the third, titled "Samus" made by someone with the handle of "Dissidia012", was a painting similar to the one made by Kerwin, although it instead featured Samus in her pose from the continue screen from the FDS version of Metroid.

The Samus Mask in New Leaf.

The Varia Suit Pants in New Leaf.

Varia Suit Shoes.

The Varia Suit in New Leaf.

The Metroid in New Leaf. It plays the Other M version of the series theme and Metroid screeching.

While Samus has appeared in every Super Smash Bros. game to date, Animal Crossing was first introduced through Trophies in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the Smashville stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (where the Villager can be seen in the background), before the series finally got a playable character in Super Smash for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The Villager is primarily based on the character's artwork for Animal Crossing: City Folk, but has alternate costumes changing their sex, clothing, hair and face to match other possible configurations in Animal Crossing. The Villager also appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with Samus, Zero Suit Samus and newcomers Ridley, Dark Samus and Isabelle, the player character's secretary in New Leaf.

The Villager and Samus were two of the first characters confirmed for Smash 4. In his gameplay reveal, the Villager demonstrates his Pocket move by catching Samus's Charge Shot and firing it back at her.

In Super Smash Bros for the Wii U, although not actual allies of Zero Suit Samus, two Villagers acted as opponents to the player (playing as Captain Falcon) shortly after Zero Suit Samus was defeated in the Event Match "Bounty Hunter Clash", with the flavor text indicating that they did so because they intended to challenge the winner of a bounty so they could beat the winner and then make off with the bounty in order to "make a quick buck."